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p.62: 4 (2) Some people feel that mothers cannot be career women too.
Every modern mother is faced with one particularly difficult choice at some point during motherhood. When it comes to choosing whether to go back to work or stay at home with her child, every mother makes this decision in a different way and for different reasons. It is hard to say if it better for a child to have a mother who is always home. It is also hard to say if a home as a whole is better off with a woman who is there to tend only to that home and not a career. There are obviously two sides to this argument but the main question is how can a working mom strike the right balance to keep her family from suffering because she is not there all the time. These days it is a fight between two kinds of moms. Working and nonworking mothers are constantly fighting and debating to figure out who is the better parent.
Your child has just been born, and you as a mother or father are torn between going back to work or taking a maternity leave to be with your baby in its first months of life. Your child’s first few months are the most important, and this is when they learn the most. But, when you have one income for the family, and you have just had a new baby, things will get rough. Women are told from the time they are young that they are so lucky to have more options to just cleaning, cooking, and taking care of the babies. But, would you want to be there for your child?
To begin with, there are many satisfactions of becoming a house-wife. One of them, and I feel the most important, is the feeling of security you would give your child. Security brings and breeds trust. Being able to spend time with your child, and not having to rush home to do things, then only getting minimal time only makes them wonder where or who their parents really are.
Secondly, being with your child all day long, can in return make you feel younger. You can also be your child’s first teacher,...
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